SERVICE: GOOGLE NOTEBOOK takedown is symptomatic of cloud computing

Thursday, January 15, 2009

http://lifehacker.com/5131781/where-to-go-when-google-notebook-goes-down

Where to Go When Google Notebook Goes Down

By Kevin Purdy, 8:10 AM on Thu Jan 15 2009, 9,709 views

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Google’s Notebook webapp was tightly integrated with other Google apps, had a killer Firefox extension, and was great at getting things done. “Was,” though, because Google is ending support. Here’s where heartsick users should turn.

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OK, here’s why you can’t trust “free” software, “beta” software, or “the cloud”.

Next time you’re going to bet your data on one of these, think “what will I do when?”.

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POLITICAL: Despise Health Insurance Companies? Just wait!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/12/23/simple-indeed-or-the-audacity-cluelessness

Simple Indeed, or The Audacity of Cluelessness
Submitted by Brandon Berg on Tue, 2008-12-23 21:52

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The International Herald Tribune showcases the astonishing cluelessness of people who are presumably among the best and brightest of Obama’s supporters:

   When a dozen consumers gathered over the weekend to discuss health care at the behest of President-elect Barack Obama, they quickly agreed on one point: they despise health insurance companies.

   They also agreed that health care was a right; that insurance should cover “everything,” not just some services; and that coverage should be readily available from the government, as well as from employers.

   “We have to keep the momentum going,” said Hijane, 34, who was a volunteer in the Obama campaign and is active in women’s health advocacy. “We are not lobbyists. We are simple citizens.”

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Get ready for national health care. Delays, Higher Costs, Rationing, and … … yes, sadly, deaths.

That’s what happens when the Socialists take over.

Sigh.

Need a new category … STUPIDITY!

Anyone want to start an insurance company? No. Me neither!

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PRODUCTIVITY: Why don’t businesses use blogs … …

Thursday, January 15, 2009

… … with rss for knowledge worker’s. I’ve tried this several times. But, never could get management or leadership interested. Most want a big central system tied into “human resources” and annual performance appraisal “systems”. Unfortunately, it’s about productivity; not “gotchas”. Might be just my impressions, but the honchos were worried about bad press. As opposed to getting all their “human resources” in alignment. With the appropriate categories and tags, anyone in the Enterprise could tap into status information.

Might be interesting to work that idea up for some one?

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GUNS: Another politican wants to disarm the people to protect the children

Thursday, January 15, 2009

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86039

WND Exclusive WEAPONS OF CHOICE

Big Brother’s new target: Tracking of all firearms
‘This is nothing less than a declaration of war on American gun owners’
Posted: January 13, 2009
10:08 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn

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U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., is hoping to pass a firearm-licensing bill that will significantly rewrite gun-ownership laws in America.

Among the more controversial provisions of the bill are requirements that all handgun owners submit to the federal government a photo, thumb print and mental heath records. Further, the bill would order the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer and owner’s address in America.

The bill claims its purpose is “to protect the pubic against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of firearms to criminals and youth.”

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Columbine, all the school shootings, Mumbai India, and countless examples. The problem is not too many guns. The problem is not enough guns. Heinlein put it best: “An armed society is a polite society”. What do you call an unarmed person? A victim! … just waiting for an attacker.

Why do we have an unarmed populace?

Liberal politicians who live in a make believe world. (And, they usually have an armed security detail protecting them. You, however, are on your own!)

Look at Africa, where the corrupt gooferment disarms the people it seeks to scape goat, before it kills them. Look at Israel, when\re schools used to be a prime terrorist target, before grandparents started taking guns to school. Look at Columbine, where the armed police waited outside till the shooting stopped.

No, sorry, we allow school caretakers to carry knives, screwdrivers, bug spray, rat poison, and other power tools. A gun is no more dangerous than any other TOOL! Personally, if I can’t have the real Second Amendment back, then I’d repeal the “gun free zone” law. That just ensures that the law abiding will be unarmed. And, I’d encourage any one who works in the school to carry if they feel comfortable doing so.

See, to be safe, not everyone has to be carrying. The trick is that the bad guys won’t know who is a sheep and who is a sheep dog. They guess wrong; they die. They die; innocents live. A very efficient solution.

Argh!

Seems so obvious.

Gooferment ills its citizens with illusions of protection and down right genocide!

Wake up sheeple.

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GUNS: Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009

http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/01/they-are-coming-after-our-ammo-by.html

Wednesday, January 7, 200
They Are Coming After Our Ammo- By Hermit

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Subject: Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009

It has already started…

Ammunition Accountability Legislation

Remember how Obama said that he wasn’t going to take your guns? Well, it seems that his allies in the anti-gun world have no problem with taking your ammo!

The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacturer and dealers to keep a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers.

Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.

Any privately held uncoded ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand loaded ammo.) They will also charge a .05 cent tax on every round so every box of ammo you buy will go up at least $2.50 or more!

If they can deprive you of ammo they do not need to take your gun!

This legislation is currently pending in 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington.

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Argh! Always, have to be ready to fight the gun-grabbers.

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